Yesterday we had a snow-day and after many sessions of terribly heavy snow removal (on the Professor's behalf) we decided to watch a movie. Although we have every bell and whistle ever invented for t.v. viewing, we could not find anything that appealed to us. Flipping through the documentary section we came across
a"Rotten Tomatoes" highly rated film. I have no idea why I have never heard of this before, possibly because it's about football. It did win an academy award!

""Set in the inner-city of Memphis, Undefeated chronicles the Manassas Tigers' 2009 football season, on and off-the-field, as they strive to win the first playoff game in the high school's 110-year history. A perennial whipping boy, in recent decades Manassas had gone so far as to sell their home games to the highest bidder, but that all changed in the spring of 2004 when Bill Courtney, a former high school football coach turned lumber salesman, volunteered to lend a hand." -- (C) Weinstein "

This is such an inspirational movie on so many levels. Everyone will love it. I will never forget Bill Courtney or this movie. If you get a chance to see it, I promise you will not be disappointed. Don't shy away because it's about football, it is, but so much more. Something to think about.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Since our departure from snowy Toronto to Paradise in
Hawaii, it would seem that Blogger has changed the rules! They are now using the Compose option and have screwed up the HTML version. This is not
what I needed whilst on the road!

To add to the confusion, we have been on the move with rare or
little internet connection. We are now situated in our destination locale in
Waikoloa on the Big Island of Hawaii. More later. We are taking the
day to do absolutely nothing...except for Mark who has gone deep sea
diving. Temperature 79F and sunny with quite a breeze. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh.

Early morning walk in Paradise. The birds are singing. We are five hours behind EST time now.

Ahhhh yes! Coffee.

The Professor insisted on trying a Spam bun. One of the only places still serving such delicacies :)

For Dana, who right about now could use a few of these! Happy Days Nana Dana :)
Congratulations on the birth of Ivy Kate Fisher

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

It was conceived in Paris with the help of my daughter in our little apartment on 6 Rue du Cherche Midi in Saint-Germain-des-Près. There were too many pictures to email taking too much time, hence the blog.

I was only reminded of this during the snow storm last week. It was said that we hadn't had as much snow since the huge storm exactly five years ago. I knew I would have taken a picture of this event, and in researching, came up with the pictures of having left Mississauga in a snow storm only to arrive in Paris, just in time to climb the Eiffel tower on Valentine's day.

These are pictures I took on a magical visit to Oahu to celebrate Dana's birthday. We looked after a freind's house and two little daschunds. This time, I will be seeing some of the same things, and some new, traveling along with The Professor and nephew Mark. It will be like old times. When Mark and his sister were very little, we had them with us every summer from Princeton to Switzerland. We saw a lot of battlefields in our days together. Here we come Pearl Harbor!